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Evil Quotes by Dean Koontz

30 Evil quotes by Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz’s storytelling often pits ordinary people against terrifying forces, and his remarks on evil echo that tension. These thirty quotations weave together his knack for suspense with a deeper meditation on what drives darkness in both fiction and reality.

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“Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive.”

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There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.

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Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.

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There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.

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I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

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Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR.…

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Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake…

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“Evil flourished everywhere, of course, in the country-side and in the suburbs, too, not merely within the boundaries of New York City.”

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Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.

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Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

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“There's more to me than you see, another me down inside somewhere, full of hate, ready to hurt, cut, smash, or if…

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The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the…

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All I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally…

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“Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance...the taproot...the killer's ultimate and truest motivation...is the hatred of…

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“If evil geniuses are so rare, why do so many bad people get away with so many crimes against their fellow citizens,…

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“the recognition of Evil, not as it was portrayed by Disney villains, but as it was in fact: ruthless and irrational, selfish…

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Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is…

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We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of…

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In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt…

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Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled…

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Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they…

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I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them,…

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Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit,…

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“Sully disapproved of destruction for destruction's sake, which seemed ever more popular in the modern world, but he always took delight in…

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The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's…

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Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look…

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We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence…

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Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you…

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The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had…

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Evil is a faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open…

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“A madman should have a madman’s laugh, not the warm chuckle of a favorite uncle.”

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“Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity for you.”

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